It’s so easy to love others!

It’s also pretty easy to despise others. I mean, let’s be honest. People can be cranky, selfish, thoughtless, cruel, wasteful, destructive, nasty and even talk about what a great, wise, informed President George Bush is.

People can astonish us with their venality. But they can also astonish us with the depth of their generosity and love.

Which do you choose to see?

Who among us hasn’t had venal moments? And who among us hasn’t performed unbidden acts of surpassing care and beauty?

Which do you choose to see?

Through which lens do you choose to see others?

Through which do you choose to see yourself?

Listen this week to my interview with the brilliant, warm and provocative Rabbi Bradley Artson. He has some powerful and inspiring words on how love begets love. And how it begins with no one else but…

… well… have a listen! And let me know what you think?

This is part 2 of an interview with Author/Teacher Will Johnson.

 

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Part 1 of an interview with Author/Teacher Will Johnson.

Sometimes the simplest practices can bring the most extraordinary results. In this two-part series, I talk with Will Johnson, author of The Spiritual Practices of Rumi,about how to achieve “union” with your beloved. Fascinating is how Will met his own “Shams” before he had even read Rumi, and how he has since made a life of teaching this practice. Rumi, of course, is the great Sufi mystic, beatific 13th Century street-rapper, whose simple words carry an uncanny ability to jar us into sudden expansive consciousness.
Will is a deep and gentle guide into this practice which so transformed the once scholarly Rumi, and is something that is certain to deepen your relationships and free you from the small boundaries of your “I” as well. Meet Will…

 

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